Word: gi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are going to be a lot of questions on that," Reagan told grimacing aides hustling him off to the bunkers to await the fallout. He won his bet. Screeched a San Francisco Chronicle headline: REAGAN WOULD SEND GI'S TO AVERT RHODESIA WAR. Hastily, the candidate began to backtrack: "I made the mistake of trying to answer hypothetical questions with hypothetical answers." When that did not float very high, Reagan began to pass off his suggestion as in keeping with current U.S. policy: "The same thing we've been doing in the Middle East." Then he became...
Five weeks later the bank reported that its losses for the first five months of 1974 actually totaled a numbing $63.6 million. The reason for part of these gi gantic losses is still mysterious. Some analysts believe that wild gambles on the swings of foreign exchange rates oc curred in the international department when Peter Shaddick was in charge...
...moonlighting GI handed her the napkin...
...PHASE of the Vietnam War concluding, we should prepare for the deluge of books and films that will help explain it. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War offer more insight and experience than many other Indochina experts. Their testimony in Winter Soldier documents the unique brutality encouraged in young GI's by Vietnam combat and their training at home. In this war atrocities are premeditated and recurring, not isolated aberrations. Marines receive a short lesson in cruelty during their pre-embarkation pep talk, when the company officer strangles a small rabbit, skins it, and throws its carcass...
...opinion. I wanted to see him and to hear him speak. To my dismay, instead of the honest journalist I had expected I found a bigot, who began a story of a German doctor in Vietnam by telling us that there was a "German hospital ship off Danang treating GI's, presumably Germany's contribution to the free world's effort-which perhaps should have been named The Auschwitz". Upon my request he repeated the terrible mane and I had to leave in anger and disgust...